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Google Yanks Several Emulators From App Store
PC Magazine reports that the "-oid" family of emulators from developer Yong Zhang (better known as yongzh) has been pulled from Google's Android Market. These include Nesoid, Snesoid, and Gameboid. From the article: "So what got Zhang the boot? Or, rather, who? Neither Zhang nor Google have commented on the primary source of the complaints against the developer's emulator apps. While most speculate that one of the Big Three are behind the purge–Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft–there's also speculation that Zhang allegedly violated the open source licenses for projects that parts of his programs were derived from." A piece at Android Police has further mention and some more background on the legal position of emulator software.
This is why apple is trying to trademark "app store". I thought the story had something to do with where I get my iPhone apps.
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I mean, is this really anything more than a minor hiccup? It's pretty easy to install apps around the App Store. It's not like iOS (yet)... There's a ton of free emu's out there for Android. Pick a substitute and game on.
Its ridiculous... Apple is hated so much that even though Android Market is also known everywhere as Android Market were gonna call it App Store anyway, even though minor confusion will occur (Since when can Android users access the App Store? Can iPhones access Android Market, too?) just because it pisses Apple off. And yet... if Apple is so hated, why are the haters so eager to try and be like Apple and decide to call their proprietary package management system "App Store," too? Excuse me while I update my sources for my ubuntu app store, do some version checking with my red hat app store, and my NetBSD app store (remember pkgsrc? must be an app store, too, right?)... oh, and I better check my Windows 7 Android Market for security updates from Microsoft (does it work all ways? Can we just start using proper names for package managers interchangeably???).
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